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To: Lane3 who wrote (8942)	12/14/2010 7:02:14 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10087

<<But if you get out from under one dominance scheme only to substitute another dominance scheme, I don't see how you can claim to have achieved freedom. Freedom is the absence of all dominance schemes, not just that one in particular. At such time as the only authority over us is to insure that we do not hurt other people, then we will have arrived. That is the libertarian objective. We are certainly not there now.>> You have left out our obligation to the tribe. manifest destiny: To expand our lives: This painting (circa 1872) by John Gast called American Progress, is an allegorical representation of the modernization of the new west. Here Columbia, intended as a personification of the United States, leads civilization westward with American settlers, stringing telegraph wire as she travels; she holds a school book. The different economic activities of the pioneers are highlighted and, especially, the changing forms of transportation. The Native Americans and wild animals flee.Events leading to the US Civil War Northwest Ordinance Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions Missouri Compromise Tariff of 1828 Nullification Crisis Nat Turner's slave rebellion The Amistad Texas Annexation Mexican–American War Wilmot Proviso Ostend Manifesto Manifest Destiny Underground Railroad Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 Compromise of 1850 Uncle Tom's Cabin Kansas–Nebraska Act Bleeding Kansas Bleeding Sumner Dred Scott v. Sandford Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry Election of 1860 Secession of Southern States Battle of Fort Sumter This box: view • talk • edit Manifest Destiny was the 19th century American belief that the United States was destined to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean. It was used by Democrats in the 1840s to justify the war with Mexico; the concept was denounced by Whigs, and fell into disuse after the mid 1850s. Advocates of Manifest Destiny believed that expansion was not only wise but that it was readily apparent (manifest) and inexorable (destiny). The concept of American expansion is much older, but John O’Sullivan coined the exact term "Manifest Destiny" in the July/August 1845 issue of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review in an article titled “Annexation”.[1] It was primarily used by Democrats to support the expansion plans of the Polk Administration, but the idea of expansion was opposed by Whigs like Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Abraham Lincoln who wanted to deepen the economy rather than broaden its expanse. It fell out of favor by 1860.[2] The belief in an American mission to promote and defend democracy throughout the world, as expounded by Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson, continues to have an influence on American political ideology.[3]